Tatler Travel Guide 2015

Vina Vik

The dish Slow-cooked veal shank with beetroot
purée and broccoli foam, and a bottle or two of Vik wine. The food
(and the wine) in this vineyard hideaway is very local - and
sensational.The location The hotel is an architectural beauty
of dark wood and glass, letting all those Millahue Valley vineyards
roll right in. Each room is designed by a different artist - one
has Japanese shutters, another a full-wall painting of two giant
clinking wine glasses (most apt), yet another a bathroom completely
covered with euro and US cents.While you're here Ride among the vines with a
local huaso (Chilean horseman), dismounting at the bodega to sample
the wine, made mainly from cabernet sauvignon and carménère:
completely scrummy.Don't miss 'Wine therapy' in the spa -
exfoliation with grape pips, then a massage using oil steeped in
the antioxidant polyphenols found in red wine. Seems a waste of
polyphenols, but who are we to judge?